Donuts is an instrumental hip hop album by producer J Dilla. Donuts was released on February 7, 2006, his 32nd birthday, and only three days before his death. This album was a major breakthrough for this underground artist, in which his unique style could be shown and many see as having subtle meanings in many of its tracks and their names (for example, the titling of "Don't Cry" and "Bye" in light of Dilla's passing afterwards). On Metacritic, D...
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Donuts is an instrumental hip hop album by producer J Dilla. Donuts was released on February 7, 2006, his 32nd birthday, and only three days before his death. This album was a major breakthrough for this underground artist, in which his unique style could be shown and many see as having subtle meanings in many of its tracks and their names (for example, the titling of "Don't Cry" and "Bye" in light of Dilla's passing afterwards). On Metacritic, Donuts received "universal acclaim" from critics based on an aggregate score of 84/100 from fifteen reviews.
In the December 2006 issue of The Fader magazine, J Dilla's mother, Maureen Yancey, who is a former opera singer, spoke of watching her son's daily routine while working on Donuts:
Dilla's death (he suffered from an incurable blood disease, TTP, as well as lupus) three days after the album's release, was widely mourned by the hip hop community, including all those who he worked with in the past and the years closer to his death,...
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